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HIGH STREET AND QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL, NEWPORT.--The ancient
borough of Newport is the capital of the Island. Its streets are
usually busy, and on market days are quite gay and animated. The
County Petty Sessional Court is held every Saturday in the Town
Hall, which is also the meeting-place of the Town Council. The
Isle of Wight County Council meets at the Technical Institute,
as does also the Education Authority. In the same building is the
Free Library, the gift of Sir Charles Seeley, Bart., who also pays
the librarian's salary, with the water rent secured from the Town
Council for the splendid supply, recently acquired from the estate
of Sir Charles at Bowcombe. The Diamond Jubilee Memorial to Her
late Majesty is erected on the spot where at the Jubilee, in 1887,
Her Royal Highness received an address of congratulation from the
inhabitants of the Isle of Wight. Newport contains the old Grammar
School where Charles I. held his conference with representatives of
the Parliament, and many other buildings of historical interest.
The monument to the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I.,
is in St. Thomas' Church.
[Illustration: _Steps to the Keep, Carisbrooke Castle._]
STEPS TO THE KEEP, CARISBROOKE CASTLE.--As a memorial of a bygone
age how interesting are the steps to the keep, the last resort of
the besieged, from which it would be difficult to dislodge them,
without great loss. The well which furnished them with water is now
dry, but can still be seen.
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